Bigfoot sighting alleged in resurfaced nature documentary footage
Alex Mitchell
Aug. 2, 2024, 3:17 p.m. ET
It’s compelling foot-age.
Conspiracy theory sleuths on Reddit believe they’ve spotted a sprinting Bigfoot in the background of a two-decades-old nature documentary.
The clip in question is from
the 2001 film “Great North,” during which director William Reeve and his “skeleton crew” explored the “high north of Quebec” near the Arctic Circle in Canada.
The obscured creature —
which appears to be moving on two feet and upright like a gorilla — was filmed above a massive, running heard of caribou plunging into a local water source. The unidentified beast, which seems out of place in the area, moves in an opposite direction.
A user on Reddit
recently posted the scene in high-definition to a page dedicated to finding Bigfoot, reigniting the debate that was originally sparked during an interview with Reeves eight years ago.
He spoke with
the YouTube page ThinkerThunker and admitted to not even noticing the unidentified species until 15 years post-filming.
Reeves maintained that human interference in the suddenly iconic shot was highly improbable in the deserted region.
“There were no strangers for hundreds of miles of where we were,” Reeves said, doubling down that nobody on his team was on the other side of the water.
The director and cinematographer behind the lens also threw water on a possible bear sighting.
“
If a bear had given chase it would have been running on all four paws and in a horizontal position,” he said.
“
This object that we’re seeing is more upright and appears to be running on two legs.”
For skeptics who ask how Bigfoot sightings have occurred across the globe and endured for decades, that’s because it isn’t a single entity, true believers say.
“It’s a very basic understanding that there’s more than one. Sometimes people see two at a time, and sometimes it seems like adults and young ones together,” Matthew Moneymaker, who heads the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization and hosted the old Animal Planet series “Finding Bigfoot” previously told The Post.
“The singular misconception carried by the idea that we hear the word Bigfoot or Sasquatch: it sounds like a single thing, which is why we all always emphasize the plurality of
Sasquatches and
Bigfoots.”
And, since the unknown Québécois moved in an ape-like fashion, that only bolsters speculation considering the perceived origins of Bigfoot.
A team of researchers from the University of Arizona speculate that if real, Sasquatches trace back to an ancient giant ape called Gigantopithecus from the days of early humans.
“They were hunted to extinction by the homo erectus,” Moneymaker added.
“We believe that these are the ones that were smart enough to not get hunted by adopting a strategy of being nocturnal and always retreating in confrontations with humans.”
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